We all need an authoritative source—someone or something—to give us the answers we need to our core life questions. The Bible claims to give us THE Truth about life; not A truth, but THE Truth. At the center of this TRUTH is the person of Jesus Christ. This week, we are going to consider why we are convinced the Bible gives us these answers.
2 Timothy 3:16–17
All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the person dedicated to God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
In our last reading for the week, we consider how the Master Story creates the context that is needed to understand why the message about Jesus is Good News – the Gospel. Over the next couple of weeks, we are going to be shifting our focus to the Gospel. Before we get there is it important to have some frame of reference that helps us understand why this Gospel is “Good News!”
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Today, we continue to discuss Paul’ speech in Athens and how it illuminates the answers to some of our fundamental life questions: Who is God? What is the purpose of life? Where are we heading? How will things end?
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Life comes to us as a Story; it has a beginning, middle, and an end. We need a larger story, a Master Story, in order to answer the foundational questions about life.
2 Timothy 3:14–15
…continue in what you have learned and firmly believed. You know those who taught you, and you know that from childhood you have known the Sacred Scriptures, which are able to give you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
We all have questions about life that we need to have answered: Who are we? Where have we come from? Why are we here? How will our lives turn out? This week, we are going to consider the basic answers that the Bible gives to these foundational questions and how Jesus plays a central role in each of these answers.
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John 5:39–40
[Jesus said,] “You study the Scriptures throughly because you think you have eternal life in them. Yet they testify about Me! And you are not willing to come to Me so that you may have life.”
Today, we finish our “birds-eye-view” of the Master Story revealed in the Bible. At the end of this present age of human history, Jesus will return to set things right.
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